Reads: Neuroevolution, Trypophobia & More

A wrap on some of the interesting reads from across the web...

1. Primate Intelligence — The Pointing Ape - Aeon
2. Pyrocene — The Planet Is Burning - Aeon
3. Voyage Around My Cell - The Paris Review
4. The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet - Rolling Stone
5. The Art of Losing Friends and Alienating People - Longreads
6. Translation and the Family of Things - Guernica
7. Methane Rising — The Climate Hunters - Reuters
8. I Had a Friend. He Dreamed of Israel. - Longreads
9. Trypophobia — Why Do Holes Horrify Me? - Mosaic
10. Don't Blame the Internet for New Slang - The Walrus
11. History as a Giant Data Set: How Analysing the Past Could Help Save the Future - The Guardian
12. How Big Tech Is Dragging Us Towards the Next Financial Crash - The Guardian
13. Make Yourselves at Home: The Meaning of Hospitality in a Divided World - The Guardian
14. Why Do People Hate Vegans? - The Guardian
15. The Girl in the Box: The Mysterious Crime That Shocked Germany - The Guardian
16. Why Can't We Agree on What's True Any More? - The Guardian
17. How Our Home Delivery Habit Reshaped the World - The Guardian
18. Artificial Wombs — Do Electric Sheep Dream of Water Babies? - Logic Magazine
19. Deeper Insights Emerge into How Memories Form - Scientific American
20. What the Fight Over Scooters Has in Common With the 19th-Century Battle Over Bicycles - Smithsonian
21. How to Unlearn Everything - Vulture
22. Neuroevolution — Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence - Quanta Magazine
23. A Mother Journeys Through Grief Across Finland's Many Islands - The New York Times
24. The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois - ProPublica
25. The Impossible Fight to Save Jakarta, the Sinking Megacity - WIRED UK
26. The Rise and Fall of Flash, the Annoying Plugin That Shaped the Modern Web - WIRED UK
27. Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers - Vice
28. Abandoning a Cat - The New Yorker
29. The Dark Side of Light - The Atlantic
30. Maritime Disaster of MS Estonia — A Sea Story - The Atlantic